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bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:16:34 -0700 |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> "Should" has at least two meanings: (1) you should
> do something (like must but less strong) and (2)
> something probably will happen.
>
> #2 says that we expect that something will likely
> happen, but it doesn't say who makes it happen.
> It's passive. There's no telling someone that
> you want them to do something. It's just saying
> that something will likely happen (somehow).
>
> My suggestion is that we not allow such a reading.
> Remove such ambiguity.
OK. How do you propose to do that?
The full text would be:
+Key sequences that consist of @kbd{C-c} followed by a letter (upper or
+lower case) are ``reserved for users,'' and should not conflict with
+any properly designed Emacs extension or Emacs itself.
To me, it seems clear that the agent in this case would be either the
Emacs developers or the package developers.
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, (continued)
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Stefan Kangas, 2020/10/29
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Stefan Kangas, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Drew Adams, 2020/10/29
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Stefan Kangas, 2020/10/29
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Drew Adams, 2020/10/29
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Stefan Kangas, 2020/10/29
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Drew Adams, 2020/10/29
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users,
Stefan Kangas <=
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Drew Adams, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Drew Adams, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Drew Adams, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/30
- bug#15917: 24.3.50; manual: mention keys reserved for users, Drew Adams, 2020/10/30